“It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. ”
“There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).”
“Isn't it funny how freedom is only another word for slavery?”
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”
“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”